REST

rest.bitcoin.com is the REST layer for Bitcoin.com's Cloud.

More info: developer.bitcoin.com. Chatroom http://geni.us/CashDev

Testnet available at trest.bitcoin.com

Usage

You can also run an instance of REST for your own full node

Prerequesites

NodeJS

Install nodejs's LTS. 8.11.4 at the time of writing.

https://nodejs.org/en/

Full node

Fire up a full Bitcoin Cash node and add the following to your bitcoin.conf.

# Accept command line and JSON-RPC commands.
server=1

# Username for JSON-RPC connections
rpcuser=rpcUsername

# Password for JSON-RPC connections
rpcpassword=rpcPasssword

# If you're running REST on a different host than bitcoind's localhost
# rpcallowip=*
# Or you can restrict by IP or range of IPs
# rpcallowip=192.168.1.*

# Enable zeromq for real-time data
zmqpubrawtx=tcp://your.nodes.ip.address:28332
zmqpubrawblock=tcp://your.nodes.ip.address:28332
zmqpubhashtx=tcp://your.nodes.ip.address:28332
zmqpubhashblock=tcp://your.nodes.ip.address:28332

Also allow tcp requests on port 28332

sudo ufw allow 28332

Clone the repo

Next clone the rest.bitcoin.com repo.

git clone https://github.com/Bitcoin-com/rest.bitcoin.com.git

Install dependencies

cd into the newly cloned directory and install the dependencies.

cd rest.bitcoin.com
npm install

Build REST

npm run build

Start REST

Now you need to start REST and pass in the following environment variables

• BITCOINCOM_BASEURL - On rest.bitcoin.com this env var is to our internal insight API. You can use insight's public API.
• RPC_BASEURL - The IP address of your full BCH node
• RPC_PASSWORD - The rpc password of your full BCH node
• RPC_USERNAME - The rpc username of your full BCH node
• ZEROMQ_PORT - The port on which you enabled ZeroMQ
• ZEROMQ_URL - The IP address of your full BCH node
• NETWORK - mainnet or testnet depending on which network you're using

Here's how the final command would look

BITCOINCOM_BASEURL=https://bch-insight.bitpay.com/api/ RPC_BASEURL=http://your.nodes.ip.address:8332/ RPC_PASSWORD=rpcPasssword RPC_USERNAME=rpcUsername ZEROMQ_PORT=28332 ZEROMQ_URL=your.nodes.ip.address NETWORK=mainnet npm run dev

Starting in the regtest mode (partly working since the bitcoincom_baseurl does not work with local nodes):

PORT=3000 BITCOINCOM_BASEURL=http://localhost:3000/api/ RPC_BASEURL=http://localhost:18332/ RPC_PASSWORD=regtest RPC_USERNAME=regtest ZEROMQ_PORT=0 ZEROMQ_URL=0 NETWORK=local npm start

View in browser

Finally open http://localhost:3000/ and confirm you see the GUI

deploy